How to Use gerrymander in a Sentence

gerrymander

1 of 2 noun
  • But as for the gerrymanders themselves, the math is on my side.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But voters will have more tools and awareness to catch gerrymanders in the act than ever before.
    — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 28 June 2019
  • Trump has a bold option to counter Virginia's new gerrymander scheme.
    — FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • And a bunch of voters challenged that map and said look, this is a partisan gerrymander.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Kiggans, however, is in a tough seat and is not assured of re-election even if the gerrymander fails.
    — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Most state legislatures are charged with drawing the lines, which is why most states are plagued by absurd gerrymanders.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The point is to prevent a ruling that strikes down a gerrymander from making a state budget or a quorum vanish.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
  • So between those two things, the balance of gerrymanders has lurched pretty abruptly toward the right.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
  • Let’s send a message that gerrymander – no matter who does it, no matter where – is not acceptable.
    — Carl Demaio, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The Supreme Court has never struck down a voting district as a gerrymander.
    — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2018
  • The best shot at halting the gerrymander, experts and some Democrats say, is fighting the map in court and at the ballot box.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Yet one of the most promising anti-gerrymander efforts may also be among the most imperiled.
    — Michael Wines, New York Times, 30 June 2018
  • The enhanced gerrymanders, some complete and some underway, aren’t the source of the problem.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • All of this reinforces the argument that judges should keep out of fights over partisan gerrymanders.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The justices left the door open for future challenges to partisan gerrymanders.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • Democrats who predict the gerrymander will backfire are conjuring up a state that doesn't exist anymore.
    — Henry Olsen, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2026
  • All three partisan gerrymander lawsuits potentially could return to the high court in the next year or two.
    — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 25 June 2018
  • The New York legislature, which was stopped by the state courts, would engage in a gerrymander.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Of all the forms of gerrymander, single-party districts are the most corrosive of our democracy.
    — David Lebedoff, Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • In that case, legislative gerrymanders in Texas and Illinois do not cancel out.
    — Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Federal courts will strike down a gerrymander intended to dilute the votes of racial minorities.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • In Illinois, Democrats could net three seats out of a map that has drawn widespread criticism for being a gerrymander.
    — David A. Lieb and Nicholas Riccardi, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Rexroad said last week that his analysis hasn’t changed, based on the new congressional boundaries produced by each state’s fresh gerrymander.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • New Yorkers, Ohioans and all Americans can look at both maps and decide which is the true gerrymander.
    — WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The Supreme Court has never struck down a voting district as a partisan gerrymander.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The decision was the first from a federal court to strike down a congressional map as a partisan gerrymander.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • Both Republicans and Democrats have drawn gerrymanders when given the chance.
    — Matt Germer, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The map was temporarily put on hold after a federal panel of judges in Texas ruled that the new map was likely a racial gerrymander.
    — Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Last week, a New York State judge declined to block the state’s new Democratic gerrymander.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • With California’s new gerrymander, the redistricting arms race has no end in sight.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025

gerrymander

2 of 2 verb
  • That the board does not gerrymander is fine with me.
    — Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The urge to gerrymander can become stronger when more is at stake.
    — David A. Lieb, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2026
  • This has cleared the field for blue states to gerrymander the bejeesus out of their maps.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • And then there could be no solution to gerrymandering for decades to come.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Mar. 2018
  • There are big reasons for this that have nothing to do with gerrymandering.
    — Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • More and more states are joining the race to the bottom to gerrymander away the power of their voters.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
  • More and more states are joining the race to the bottom to gerrymander away the power of their voters.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
  • The other thing is that this map was so blatantly gerrymandered.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
  • But the next two years are probably gonna be maybe just as active as the past year has been in gerrymandering.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • Districts are subject to gerrymandering by those who draw the lines.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
  • And some blue states have been more vigorous about gerrymandering.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In other words, gerrymandering rarely flips control on its own.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Texas Democrats, still a minority and gerrymandered to stay that way, do have hope.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There has been an enormous amount of press coverage of the battle over gerrymandering in the last month.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That gave Brown and the Democrats a once-in-a-lifetime shot at gerrymandering.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2026
  • One thing for certain is that gerrymandering – whether racial or partisan – is wrong.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
  • And then there is gerrymandering.
    — Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • This power grab and installed gerrymandering fix was a misguided attempt to make two wrongs a right.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Why is it called gerrymandering?
    — David A. Lieb, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Why are more states gerrymandering?
    — David A. Lieb, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The gerrymandering stakes in the race for governor are unknown.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 May 2026
  • That would have ended gerrymandering across the country.
    — NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The gerrymandering battle has spread to other states.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Democrats need to net just three seats to flip the lower chamber this fall, which upped the stakes for either party to secure the edge through gerrymandering.
    — Julia Mueller, The Hill, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And the reality is that so many of our House districts are drawn today with gerrymandering for each side.
    — Steff Danielle Thomas, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2025
  • They’ve been gerrymandered out of existence.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
  • That makes prison gerrymandering a uniquely distortive force compared to soldiers and students.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2019
  • With six months until Election Day, the race to gerrymander House districts is not slowing down.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 4 May 2026
  • The current map, which experts have said is one of the most gerrymandered in the country, was approved by the current state Supreme Court last year.
    — Adam Edelman, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Experts say its political lines are among the least gerrymandered in the United States as a result.
    — Andrew Nicla, azcentral, 2 May 2018

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